112- The students are either finishing their page for the Guide to the Nature Trail or beginning to build their fairy house. I expect that they will all be finished and working on the fairy house within the next week.
101- We had centers in the atelier for the pre-k today. One group was at the easels with the provocation, "Can you paint the colors of a flower?" They were given tempera and a laminated color photo of a flower. A second group was working on building a fairy house. The third group was with me, trying to draw the lines they see in the flower of their birth month.
104- I took four different students to work on the second session of fairy house building. They added chairs and a television made from seashells, "trees," and a section that looks like a rock climbing wall. They decided that they wanted monkey bars. They had no problem starting the monkey bar construction, but finding sticks that were the right size for the end of the monkey bars required some thought. Nairovy took a ruler from the counter and tried to measure the size they would need. Jordany and Yarilys tried to find broken sticks that were the right size. Sandeiliz tried to break the sticks down to the right size. The solution ended up being one of Sandeliz's sticks worked and then Jordany was able to find a matching stick. Their use of a ruler and then other things in the room to measure was pretty awesome. We'd just had a discussion on this very subject- giving kids the opportunity to measure without making it a specific lesson on the use of rulers and watch the learning take place- and then it happened organically!
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| Solving the monkey bar problem. |
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| Trial and error stick measurement. |
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| The completed monkey bars. |
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| Monkey Bars |
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| Two chairs and a television. |
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